“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
